SoDA-package: Functions and Other Code for the book "Software for Data...

In SoDA: Functions and Examples for "Software for Data Analysis"

Description

This package contains R functions, some Fortran and C code, a little miscellaneous code in other languages, and some data sets related to the book "Software for Data Analysis". Most of the functions developed in the book will be found in this package, sometimes in a more elaborated form.

In addition, there is a large collection of R and other code and some data sets, in the "Examples" directory of the package, including the source used to generate a number of examples shown in the book. The R examples can be used to reproduce the book's examples (not quite all, since a few involve data that cannot be freely distributed).

The function runExample can be used to run or access the material in the examples. See its documentation for more details. Examples can be cited by file name or by the page on which the output of the example begins. See exampleFiles for how this works.

A related set of functions can be used to demonstrate R examples a line at a time, with the demonstrating human having the option to insert typed expressions during the demonstration. See demoSource, including demoExample for the version designed for using example files from the book.

In keeping with the subtitle of the book, some of the functions in this package are slight extensions to programming facilities for R; for example, packageAdd and promptAll to add software and documentation to a package.

References

Chambers, John M.(2008) Software for Data Analysis: Programming with R, Springer.

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